Comic templates to print

Speech bubbles, thought bubbles and sound words to cut out

Here's a page of empty bubbles. Speech bubbles for talking, cloud bubbles for thinking, boxes for the narrator, and bursts for big noises like BOOM. Write in them, cut them out, and stick them on a drawing.

Free printable speech bubble cutouts: empty speech and thought bubbles, caption boxes and sound-word bursts to write in, cut out and stick on. Free, nothing to sign up for, and nothing you draw ever leaves the paper.

Letter is the US and Canada size; A4 is the size nearly everywhere else. It prints on one page.

Bubble cut-outs1 page · Letter · portrait

Bubble cut-outs1 page · A4 · portrait

How to use it

Print the page tall, at 100% size.
Write the words in first, while the page is flat. Thick pen, big letters.
Cut around the outside of each shape. A grown-up can help with the pointy bits.
Stick them on your comic, a drawing or a photo, with the tail pointing at who's talking.

Peabody's tips

A speech bubble's tail points at the mouth that's talking.
A thought bubble has little circles instead of a tail: nobody hears it.
Sound words look best in capital letters, like CRASH, POP and ZOOM.

Printing it right

Pick the button for your paper. In the print box, keep the size at 100% (sometimes called “Actual size”), not “Fit to page”, so the panels come out the size they were drawn. The page is black lines on white, so a black-and-white printer is all you need, and it uses very little ink. Every line sits at least 0.4 inches from the edge, inside the part of the page that home printers can reach.

More comic templates

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